Massive Loss

Massive Loss

On the evening of July 5th, the weather was unusually cool.

Cheng Yun finally did not have to work the night shift, which gave him more time in the evening--previously, he had been accustomed to going out at night to browse the night views and night markets, and to do fitness running.

"Shall we practice physical endurance first or practice fist techniques first?" Cheng Yun asked Heroine Yin.

"Whatever," Heroine Yin said.

"Then let's go out and practice physical endurance first! Just in time, that girl Cheng Yan has been shouting about wanting to go out for a run with me, and it is also time to let her witness my physical endurance, so as to spare that girl from day in and day out calling me a weakling without any sense of propriety," Cheng Yun said like this, "and if we go up to practice fist techniques now, it wouldn't be good if it happened to catch her attention. If we practice a bit later, she'll pretty much be about to sleep. Don't you agree, Heroine?"

"Oh, oh," Heroine Yin nodded dazedly.

"Then I'll go up and call her, and by the way, change into running shoes and running clothes," Cheng Yun said, tilting his head to glance at the T-shirt on Heroine Yin's body. "Aren't you going to change your clothes?"

"Ah? Do I not need to change?"

"I mean the... undergarment inside." Cheng Yun reached out and pointed at Heroine Yin's non-negligible chest. "I remember I bought a sports bra for you. You should wear that, otherwise your chest weapon... ordinary underwear probably won't hold it, and once you start running, it'll bounce like crazy."

"Wulf! What are you saying?! How could you..." Heroine Yin's face turned slightly red, and she glared at him with a look that was neither annoyed nor angry, before scurrying upstairs in a flash.

Not long after, the three of them stood at the entrance of the Yida track and field stadium--

At six o'clock in midsummer, it was still far from dark, about the time when people had just finished dinner. College students had energy to burn and completely disregarded the health-preserving ways of wolfberries and beer; a portion of the boys ate and then sweated profusely on the green field, while a portion of the girls came to run and lose weight without even eating dinner. Coupled with faculty members and staff walking their grandchildren or pet dogs, and couples holding hands while feeding dog food to others and strolling, the huge track and field stadium was actually packed to the brim, with almost nothing but people, forming a sharp contrast to the last time Cheng Yun and Heroine Yin came!

Cheng Yun held a bottle of high-calorie milk tea in one hand and a bottle of mineral water in the other, neither of which was opened.

Cheng Yan held a bottle of mineral water, took a crisp, small gulp, and stepped into the stadium gate first.

As for Heroine Yin, she followed behind cutely, holding a can of Sprite and taking small, delicate sips, closely tailing them while her eyes widened to look around this sports field.

"So many people!" she said.

"Indeed," Cheng Yun nodded, then said, "I told you we should have gone to the wetland park."

"The plastic runway is not as damaging to the knees." Cheng Yan cast a cold glare at him. "In youth you don't value your body, in old age you weep in vain as a paralytic."

"Hey, isn't this saying supposed to go differently?"

"Stop talking nonsense and do your preparation exercises!" Cheng Yan silently began to warm up, looking straight ahead and ignoring the gazes that the men and women in the stadium shifted onto her.

She wore loose athletic shorts and stepped into a pair of jogging shoes. Tied around her petite ankles was a red string that Cheng Yun had received as a free gift a few years ago when buying something on Taobao. The skin on her legs was dazzlingly fair, slender, and straight. Her perfect leg shape, coupled with her relatively tall height among southern girls, made it hard not to attract people's attention in this hormone-overloaded sports field.

What was even more exasperating was that she was also extremely pretty!

Thus, as she did her preparation exercises, the men and women running past on the track were all looking at her. But when Cheng Yun, who had a tall and handsome figure, stood by her side, the boys looking at her decreased by more than half; conversely, the girls became even more numerous!

Cheng Yan ran twenty laps in one breath, a full eight kilometers, taking less than fifty minutes. For a girl, this could already be considered a very fast speed.

It was the same during the run; across the entire stadium, the girls who could compare speeds with her did not exceed five. Regardless of whether those other girls were running one thousand or two thousand meters, she could easily surpass them at a steady pace. Even most of the boys could not compare to her and were successively overtaken by her. This undoubtedly made her, who was already eye-catching, an even more conspicuous existence.

Yet when she stopped and placed her leg on the climbing frame to stretch, her gaze was fixed helplessly all the time on a running figure on the sports field.

That figure was also extremely conspicuous in her eyes.

He was still running.

Cheng Yan felt truly helpless.

When running long distances, leg length was a very important factor. Even with a pair of long legs, her height was only one meter seven; it was impossible to compare leg length with Cheng Yun, who was one meter eight. Although while running she had also overtaken many boys taller than her, Cheng Yun ran much too fast.

At the very beginning, she had even solemnly warned Cheng Yun not to run too fast and to maintain a steady pace, because starting to run too fast easily led to problems later on such as physical exhaustion, muscle strains, or hypoglycemia and so on. But later she discovered... this was simply his steady pace.

He had lapped her countless times, and she would be lapped by him once for every average two laps she ran, yet he was still running now.

The sky had already grown dim, and I don't know how much longer passed before the huge lights on one side of the stadium suddenly lit up, casting mottled shadows within the stadium. Cheng Yun was still running.

This figure had run more than thirty laps continuously without slowing down his speed. Not only was Cheng Yan paying attention to him, but even many men and women who were also running began to focus their attention on him, doubting whether he and they were running on the same playground.

Damn it... Cheng Yun also felt tired!

The mark on his vest could ensure that his muscle tissue and bones were not damaged, but it could not replace the body system to recharge the muscles--he ran a bit too fast indeed; given his current physical fitness, it was extremely strenuous to continuously output so much energy for his leg muscles. But he had no other way either. Not only did Heroine Yin sit on the soccer field's turf making hand gestures for him to keep running, but she also damn well made him speed up!

After Cheng Yan finished her stretches, she trained her legs bare-handed, did quite a few pull-ups that many boys could not even manage a few of, and even did a dozen parallel bar dips primarily targeting the chest muscles amidst a crowd of people looking at a goddess...

At this time, Cheng Yun finally finished running.

He simply did two stretches, without excessively relaxing his muscles, and walked over to the parallel and horizontal bar area.

Cheng Yan glanced at him with an expression that was somewhat strange, but she tried her best to maintain calm, slightly raising her chin as she said, "Going back?"

"If you want to go back, go ahead first," Cheng Yun said. "I'll play around a bit more."

"No need, I'm fine too. I'll just stay here with you." Cheng Yan wanted to see just how much of a freak he really was; it couldn't possibly be that he hadn't exercised for so long and yet still maintained the physical fitness of his past peak period, right?

"Alright." Cheng Yun picked up the milk tea left on the turf and tilted his head to gulp down more than half the bottle.

Soon Cheng Yan realized her own mistake--she shouldn't have come running with Cheng Yun, nor should she have stayed here to watch Cheng Yun's subsequent workouts. Originally, she frequented fitness training and was extremely confident in her own physical fitness, which was why recently she had been looking at Cheng Yun with the eyes of a weakling. But today's erroneous decision not only completely shattered her confidence, but also made her no longer able to apply the word weakling to Cheng Yun.

She lost, she lost big!